:::takes a long pull on his corncob pipe while swaying peacefully in a rocking chair on a lazy Napa Valley porch::: Oh hi, I didn’t see you there. My name’s Matt Wallace, and I’d like to talk with you today about 2019’s genre fiction award season and your responsibility to yourself and I’m just fuckin’ with you. But what is serious is how 2019 is a big year for my Sin du Jour series of books, awards eligibility-wise, and kind…

My wife, Nikki, who is right about everything except the texture of certain inedible foods, assures me I’m not the best at multitasking. Considering I haven’t posted a new blog since September of last year, I’m hardly in a position to argue. But I’m working on it. Multitasking, that is. Not arguing with Nikki. A lot has happened since my last blog update. I wrapped up my novella series. There’ve been new book deals, awards, travel, new jobs, new projects….

It’s a day of killer Sin du Jour content and announcements; covers revealed, giveaways offered, reviews out. For me, however, it holds a fine edge of sadness. This week I’m finishing rewrites on Taste of Wrath, the last Sin du Jour novella. When I’m done all we’ll have left is copyediting and after that, for all intents and purposes, my work writing the story of Bronko, Lena, Ritter, and the rest of the Sin du Jour staff and their weird, funny,…

“Like occasionally I’m legit pissed about the fact that there doesn’t appear to be a fandom for this fantastic series because sometimes, all I want to do is talk about my SdJ theories with like-minded folks (but then I look at my latest fandom experiences and kind of… resign myself to being a SdJ super-fan in relative anonymity).” – Stitch’s Media Mix That’s from a review of my newest offering, Greedy Pigs, out today from Tor.com Publishing. Stitch is a book/media…

The essential and fundamental truth you must accept and fully understand about our business is this: There is nothing, not negative margins at the end of the fiscal year and not the pre-fall-of-Rome state of the government and not their parents being eaten by cancer, there is NOTHING the people who employ writers hate more than writers. The more their market or company or project utterly depends on writing, the more and more fervent their noxiously unctuous contempt is for…

Hey, folks! Today is the day. The fourth book in my Sin du Jour novella series–IDLE INGREDIENTS–has been released into the wild! It’s the midway point in the series, and shit is about to get turned up to 11. If you’re new to the party I invite you to read my last post outlining 15 things you absolutely need to know about Sin du Jour by way of introduction into the series. And then dive in. The water is fine….

Hey, folks. Today sees the release of a new ebook by me from the amped-up war rig crew at Tor.com Publishing. It’s called Sin du Jour: The First Course and it’s an omnibus edition of my first three Sin du Jour novellas. As we approach the midway point in the series, Tor.com Pub wanted to make it as easy and as cost effective as possible to get new readers into Sin du Jour, and this is a fantastic way to do…

Where did it go, folks? And how did we not notice it passing beyond the veil? I’m writing, of course, of the year 2016. It feels like we’re still hip-deep in the muck of it, yet it’s all in the books and 2017 is here, insistent and fully formed. I just can’t believe 2016 is over already. We must’ve made the mistake of blinking. That’s it. In any case, one of the genre author’s yearly benchmarks has once again arrived….

One week from today I’ll be boarding a plane alongside my luminous fiancée, Nikki, and the pair of us will be flying to Kansas City for The 74th WorldCon, taking place during MidAmeriCon II. I’ll be appearing on and even moderating a few panels, and (naturally) shilling the various books I have out right now. The big ticket item is, of course, the second annual Ditch Diggers Live! Thursday evening, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., my intrepid co-host Mur Lafferty…

Hey, folks. In case you somehow missed the announcement back in January, one of my absolute all-time favorite indie publishers, purveyors of books and ‘zines about all things masked Mexican wrestling, From Parts Unknown, announced I’ve signed on to do an all-new novella series with them. It’s called Rencor, and it’s a far-out buddy cop supernatural action/adventure comedy saga about two generations-old enmascarado rivals, a tecnico (good guy) and rudo (bad guy), forced to team up to combat evil in…

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RENCOR: Life in Grudge City

The first salvo in Matt Wallace's brand new lucha buddy cop novella series RENCOR has been fired! LIFE IN GRUDGE CITY takes you into a world of masked wrestlers as real-life crime-fighting heroes, monsters and mayhem, and bacon-wrapped hot dogs unlike anything you've ever experienced. It's action, comedy, mystery, and bloody-knuckled soul at its best!